The constituency office has been given the opportunity of recommending constituents for the TCCTP food card. With this card, an allowance of fifty persons per month are sent to the Ministry of the People & Social Development Couva Regional Office – Social Services Division where they are interviewed by officers and then issued a TCCTP food card.

MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Approximately thirty persons have acquired housing through the Ministry of Housing and the Environment. Emphasis is placed on those with disabilities and single mothers.

MINISTRY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

After many months, the Waterloo Community Centre was finally opened on Sunday 8th January, 2011.The next Community Centre to be opened would be the Couva Community Centre in 2012.

NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SELF-HELP

Individuals are granted $15,000.00 in order to conduct necessary repairs to their homes. In this category, over 100 persons have benefitted from this grant.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

Minister Vasant Bharath made visits to the Couva North Constituency where he opened the brand new Carli Bay Fishing Facility. Visits were also made to the Orange Valley and Brick Field Fishing Depots where he promised to assist with rehabilitation of the existing structures. Minister Bharath toured the Brickfield area and looked at the now derelict tilapia freshwater farm which he promised to revive in order to provide income for residents.

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION

The 2012 opening of the On-the-Job Training Office in Couva, YTEPP Retraining Centre and UTT Campuses in Waterloo as well as the Woodford Lodge Workforce Development Technology Centre, all in Couva North, would greatly benefit constituents in future.